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How Improving Markdowns Will Impact Your Most Important Supply Chain KPIs

Retail TouchPoints

So why should these teams expand their focus to consider markdown planning in addition to their already full slate of targets? Because better markdowns have the potential to significantly improve the traditional KPIs that supply chain teams are evaluated on.

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Genesco to Close 100+ Journeys Stores as it Focuses on Off-Mall Locations

Retail TouchPoints

The company is looking to pivot Journeys to an off-mall strategy, with 13 locations out of a planned 25 already open. This was attributed to increased markdowns at Journeys offsetting an otherwise normalized promotional environment, which led to improved margins at the other businesses. “We Genesco’s gross margin was 47.3%

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How to achieve profit growth with a killer assortment plan

Inside Retail

With customer demands coming in hotter and the stakes higher than ever, assortment planning is the key to profit growth. Here, we help you avoid profit margin mayhem with a considered, data-driven assortment plan. What is assortment planning? Why is assortment planning important? This is all managed by the store grading.

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Retail Reinvented: An Insight into Inventory Transformation with RSG

Retail Smart Guys

For our client, and indeed for all our partners, we go beyond the conventional by providing a detailed monthly open-to-buy plan for each class, with a focus on individual locations for multi-store retailers. Then we provide a detailed monthly open-to-buy plan for each class (by location for multi-store retailers).

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From Analysis to Profits: Transform Your Retail Inventory Strategy in 2024

Retail Smart Guys

As we embark on the exciting journey that is 2024, I wanted to share something that has proven to be a game-changer for our clients at Retail Smart Guys and that is our Inventory Planning service. With our Inventory Planning service, we go beyond traditional methods. Navigating the ebb and flow of retail demands a strategic approach.

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Meet the new online outlet mall targeting Gen Z and millennial consumers

Inside Retail

TheDOM.com (DOM stands for Digital Off-Price Mall) will offer discounted designer fashion, streetwear and activewear from more than 90 leading Australian and international brands when it goes live in the second half of June, and there are plans to expand into additional categories, such as homewares, electronics and travel, in the future. “We

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Target, Macy’s and Dollar Tree Prep for a Tough Year Despite Holiday Success

Retail TouchPoints

Macy’s Sees its Future in Luxury and Off-Mall Locations Macy’s has been diligently modernizing its operations for the past several years, and its performance in the coming months will be a sign of whether its efforts are paying off. “In during Q4, but they were up 0.6% at its flagship banner and up 5.8%

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